Gag Gift, 2024, 12″x18″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, Gouache, and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Eat Me, 2024, 30″x22″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Fooled You, 2024, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene with Cutout Holes
Hanky Streamer, 2023, 48″x36″, Ink and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Curtain Call, 2023, 60″x40″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Ball Gag Juggler, 2023, 40″x30″, Ink, Gouache, Vinyl Paint, Acrylic Pen, and Acrylic Gloss Medium on Polypropylene
Venus (Your Face Here), 2023, 60″x40″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene with Oval Hole Cutout
Spark Plug, 2022, 26″x20″, Ink, Acrylic Pen, and Vinyl Paint on Polypropylene
Trickster, 2022, 24″x14″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Moonbeams, 2022, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic on Polypropylene
Sparkler, 2022, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Taffy Pull, 2022, 11″x14″, Ink and Vinyl Paint on Polypropylene
Proscenium, 2022, 11″x14″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic on Polypropylene
Pucker Up, 2022, 14″x11″, Ink and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Grand Tetons, 2022, 16″x20″, Ink, Vinyl Paint, and Acrylic Pen on Polypropylene
Installation View, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2024 (with Lauren Carter‘s piece on the right)
Installation View, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2024
Installation View, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2024
Installation View, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2024
This body of work began as a nod to Rabelais, a French author from the 1500s who wrote about bodily topics such as food, sex, and defecation in comical ways that might appear gratuitous. Some literary theorists claim that his grotesque humor deliberately maintains a tradition from medieval marketplace carnivals where an emphasis on the body—in contrast to the mind or soul—restored a sense of kinship among the masses.
